Susanne Fagerlund Swedish

Through a kaleidoscope of algorithms and digital tools, Fagerlund has sequenced the images and mutated them into new species. It forms a speculative digital ecosystem where the past and the future coexist in friction with the ongoing climate crisis. The artwork Fruiting Bodies is inspired by fungi and their mycelium, which connect plants to each other so that they may share resources in an ecosystem.

In her project Fruiting Bodies, Susanne Fagerlund has explored archives of images of endangered and extinct species. Inspired by Donna Haraway's theories of "Tentacular thinking," she has worked as a "mad gardener" and treated the archives as a compost heap of the past, present, and future. Through a kaleidoscope of algorithms and digital tools, Fagerlund has sequenced the images and mutated them into new species. It forms a speculative digital ecosystem where the past and the future coexist in friction with the ongoing climate crisis. The artwork Fruiting Bodies is inspired by fungi and their mycelium, which connect plants to each other so that they may share resources in an ecosystem. 

Susanne Fagerlund received her master’s degree in Fine Art at Valand Academy in 2021. During spring 2023, she is completing a post-master course at the Royal Academy of Arts in Stockholm. As an artist, she works project-based, and human and non-human relationships are always the underlying current. Fagerlund  explored our relationship with nature in her recent projects and used artificial intelligence and several other mediums. Her installations oscillate between digital technologies, video, sound, sculpture and photography. Since graduating from Valand in 2021, she has  received a 1-year work grant from Konstnärsnämnden, had three solo and six group exhibitions, including  Borås Art Museum (duo), Hasselblad Center (group), Galleri KC (solo) and Gothenburg Art Association (solo). In 2023, she was selected by the Copenhagen Photo Festival as’ Nordic Future Talent’ for the organization FUTURE FOUNDATION (co-founded by the European Union’s Creative Europe programme). During 2023, she has several exhibitions around Sweden (Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg Museum of Natural History, Galleri Thomassen, Sergelstorg, etc.) but also in Norway (Møre og Romsdal Kunstsenter) and Denmark (Copenhagen Photo Festival).  In the spring of 2023, she will collaborate with the Hasselblad Center on a project for the 100th anniversary of Gothenburg’s Natural History Museum.